Bill Ackman

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is not one to shy away from making predictions. The Pershing Square Capital Management CEO is perhaps most famous for his crusade against Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) and his $1 billion bet…

Everyone makes mistakes — including Wall Street’s best and brightest. And given the millions and billions of dollars at stake in their activities, their oops moments tend to get attention. This hedge fund manager just…

Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Bill Ackman had an incredible 2014. His Pershing Square made an estimated $4.5 billion for investors last year, pushing Ackman into the rankings of the most successful hedge fund…

Carl Icahn thinks everyone should follow him on Twitter. But he isn’t the only billionaire who has the whole online thing figured out.

Bill Ackman returned +40% in 2014. For Pershing Square investors, that translated to a gain of about +35%. As for Ackman, he made what CNBC estimates to be a billion dollars.

Hedge fund manager Larry Robbins, the hockey playing head of Glenview Opportunity funds, is probably the master story teller in the hedge fund industry. With all due respect to Bill Ackman, whose team is also a master…

Bill Ackman is everywhere lately.

In November, Forbes declared him the winner of 2014. In December, we wished everyone a new year as big as his…

2014 hasn’t exactly been good to the hedge fund industry, with operations shutting at a rate not seen since 2009. Closures aside, there has been quite a bit going on otherwise — especially when it comes to the billionaires at the top of the crop.

“You can expect that we will be candid in our reporting to you including detailed discussions of successes and failures,” writes Bill Ackman in his third quarter letter to Pershing Square investors (of course, the billionaire has…